Roger Rapoport visits Book Passage in Marin County on the 50th anniversary of the Patty Hearst kidnapping. Immediately after the 19 year-old media heiress was abducted from her Berkeley apartment on February 4, 1974, he began covering the story for New Times, newspapers and then went on to ghost write a book on the case with Patty Hearst’s fiancé. That book was never published, and now, half a century later, he revisits the case in his new novel Searching for Patty Hearst. The book draws heavily from that time and explores alternative theories of one of the most bizarre and polarizing crimes in American history. Rapoport gives voice to much of the story that fell outside the bounds of journalistic coverage

“Searching for Patty Hearst is the Catch 22 of the radical terrorist actions in the latter part of last century. It is an amazing, clever re-creation of those troubling times. The ultimate California love story.”

— Henry Massie, author of the Boy Who Took Marilyn to the Prom and Lives Across Time.